Body spare parts
You are better dead than alive. When the total value of a life is less than a part of it, selling that part definitely...
Peace in the region
The South Asian region and its development is surely linked with the effort and thinking of the people of these countries to understand the...
The fate of Pakistani exports
Sakina Husain
The SBP reported exports amounting to $22. 8b during the period Jul-May11, registering a growth of about 27 per cent over the corresponding...
Black swan season
Judging by market psychology, the last couple of weeks prove that we live in extremely uncertain times. The international economy is locked in a...
All eyes on provinces
The time has come for the provincial machinery to be tested after the 18th amendment and NFC award augmented their autonomy and resource pool....
The abundant uses of scarcity
The concept of scarcity occupies a central position in economics. Both macro and micro economics are instinct with this idea. Because this centrality has...
All about governance
More than fundamental and structural issues, most of Pakistan’s current economic problems stem from lack of governance. Matters of inadequate tax collection, checking damaging...
Outsource to Pakistan
Economies have always been international. Offshore business processes outsourcing is not a new phenomenon. In our part of world outsourcing has been a prominent...
Stock trading in depressed volumes
With stock brokers en bloc having issues with the government on the way trade and the bourses have been taxed, volumes in the market...
Narrative of growth
The international financial order has been changed dramatically following the recession in 2008. More importantly, it has radically reshaped the way we think...
A disfigured energy framework
Consumers and industry alike are paying dearly for inadequacies of energy policies of successive governments that encouraged private sector entrepreneurs to produce their own...
Trading in debt under shari’a
While Islam restricts the lending and borrowing of money, that is, with regards to the charging or paying of interest, it encourages interest-free lending...
Experiencing the place
Taking a flight from Islamabad to Karachi, the flying time is likely to be about two hours if you also account for the boarding...
Entertainment deficit
For a country where the highest viewership is for talk shows and the only external entertainment source is restaurants, a lack of diversity of...
Is Pakistan a Greece in the making?
With the international media prancing on the woes of the EU and irresolution within the US, default seems to be the common howling pawn...
Immediate concerns
I’m in agreement with much of the post-budget debates carried in these pages. It is clear that the government is banking on increased tax...
Economics of moral hazard
Renewed US slowdown, Europe’s peripheral debt and default concerns, and inflationary pressures on Chinese growth sound the death knell for the Fed-led recession response,...
